66°28′01″N 87°10′16″E / 66.467°N 87.171°E Kureika ( Russian: Куре́йка) is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey. [ citation needed]
Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916. In 1938 the Stalin museum in Kureika was established. In 1952 a pavilion was built surrounding and preserving the izba (wooden hut) Stalin had lived in during his exile. The museum was closed and hut was demolished, along with Stalin's statue, during de-Stalinization in 1961, and the pavilion was burnt in a fire in 1996. [1]
References
- ^ "Тень тирана в сибирской глубинке" ("Tyrant's Shadow in Siberian Outback"), Novaya Gazeta
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66°28′01″N 87°10′16″E / 66.467°N 87.171°E Kureika ( Russian: Куре́йка) is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey. [ citation needed]
Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916. In 1938 the Stalin museum in Kureika was established. In 1952 a pavilion was built surrounding and preserving the izba (wooden hut) Stalin had lived in during his exile. The museum was closed and hut was demolished, along with Stalin's statue, during de-Stalinization in 1961, and the pavilion was burnt in a fire in 1996. [1]
References
- ^ "Тень тирана в сибирской глубинке" ("Tyrant's Shadow in Siberian Outback"), Novaya Gazeta
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